Oswald Chambers Quotes

We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

Oswald Chambers

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• Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Player
  • Model
  • Personality

• Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence
  • Go

• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Giving
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• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
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• The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Family
  • Society

• My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Struggle
  • Questions

• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Door
  • View

• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Experience
  • You
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• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Money
  • Day
  • Find

• You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Patience

• I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Help
  • Brothers
  • Sights

• India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Great
  • Understand
  • India

• My bandmate once pissed his pants when we were playing in Brazil - but we weren't embarrassed, we were proud.

  

  David Macklovitch
  • Playing
  • Embarrassed
  • Brazil

• In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.

  

  Fede Alvarez
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  • Day
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• These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

  

  Edward Bennett Williams

• In my books I have lifted bits from various religions in trying to come to a better understanding; I've made use of religious themes and symbols. Now, as the world becomes more pagan, one has to lead people in the same direction in a different way.

  

  Patrick White
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Understanding
  • Service
  • Prayer